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Τρυγαῖος

ὦ σεμνοτάτη βασίλεια θεὰ

πότνιʼ Εἰρήνη,
975

δέσποινα χορῶν, δέσποινα γάμων,

δέξαι θυσίαν τὴν ἡμετέραν.

Χορός

δέξαι δῆτʼ ὦ πολυτιμήτη

νὴ Δία, καὶ μὴ ποίει γʼ ἅπερ αἱ

μοιχευόμεναι δρῶσι γυναῖκες.
980

καὶ γὰρ ἐκεῖναι παρακλίνασαι

τῆς αὐλείας παρακύπτουσιν,

κἄν τις προσέχῃ τὸν νοῦν αὐταῖς

ἀναχωροῦσιν,

κᾆτʼ ἢν ἀπίῃ παρακύπτουσιν.
985

τούτων σὺ ποίει μηδὲν ἔθʼ ἡμᾶς.

Τρυγαῖος

μὰ Δίʼ ἀλλʼ ἀπόφηνον ὅλην σαυτὴν

γενναιοπρεπῶς τοῖσιν ἐρασταῖς

ἡμῖν, οἵ σου τρυχόμεθʼ ἤδη

τρία καὶ δέκʼ ἔτη,
990

λῦσον δὲ μάχας καὶ κορκορυγάς,

ἵνα Λυσιμάχην σε καλῶμεν.

παῦσον δʼ ἡμῶν τὰς ὑπονοίας

τὰς περικόμψους,

αἷς στωμυλλόμεθʼ εἰς ἀλλήλους·
995

μεῖξον δʼ ἡμᾶς τοὺς Ἕλληνας

πάλιν ἐξ ἀρχῆς

φιλίας χυλῷ καὶ συγγνώμῃ

τινὶ πρᾳοτέρᾳ κέρασον τὸν νοῦν·

καὶ τὴν ἀγορὰν ἡμῖν ἀγαθῶν

ἐμπλησθῆναι, μεγάλων σκορόδων,
1000

σικύων πρῴων, μήλων, ῥοιῶν.

δούλοισι χλανισκιδίων μικρῶν·

κἀκ Βοιωτῶν γε φέροντας ἰδεῖν

χῆνας νήττας φάττας τροχίλους·

καὶ Κωπᾴδων ἐλθεῖν σπυρίδας,
1005

καὶ περὶ ταύτας ἡμᾶς ἁθρόους

ὀψωνοῦντας τυρβάζεσθαι

Μορύχῳ Τελέᾳ Γλαυκέτῃ, ἄλλοις

τένθαις πολλοῖς· κᾆτα Μελάνθιον

ἥκειν ὕστερον ἐς τὴν ἀγοράν,
1010

τὰς δὲ πεπρᾶσθαι, τὸν δʼ ὀτοτύζειν,

εἶτα μονῳδεῖν ἐκ Μηδείας,

ὀλόμαν ὀλόμαν, ἀποχηρωθεὶς

τᾶς ἐν τεύτλοισι λοχευομένας·

τοὺς δʼ ἀνθρώπους ἐπιχαίρειν.
1015

Peace. Aristophanes. ed. F. W. Hall, ed. William M. Geldart. Oxford. 1906.

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Εἰρήνη (Greek) (Aristophanes. Aristophanis Comoediae, Vol. 1. Hall, F. W. and Geldart, William M., editors. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906.)

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Peace (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Anonymous; 1938 compilation). Migrated from Perseus legacy XML; source wording and notes retained. See TEI header and migration inventory.) — 974 focus

Trygaeus

Oh! Peace, mighty queen, venerated goddess, 975 thou, who presidest over choruses and at nuptials, deign to accept the sacrifices we offer thee.

Servant

Receive it, greatly honored mistress, and behave not like the 980 courtesans, who half open the door to entice the gallants, draw back when they are stared at, 985 to return once more if a man passes on. But do not thou act like this to us.

Trygaeus

No, but like an honest woman, show thyself to thy worshippers, who are worn with regretting thee all these 990 thirteen years. Hush the noise of battle, be a true Lysimacha to us. Put an end to this tittle-tattle, to this idle babble, 995 that set us defying one another. Cause the Greeks once more to taste the pleasant beverage of friendship and temper all hearts with the gentle feeling of forgiveness. Make excellent commodities 1000 flow to our markets, fine heads of garlic, early cucumbers, apples, pomegranates and nice little cloaks for the slaves; make them bring geese, ducks, pigeons and larks from Boeotia 1005 and baskets of eels from Lake Copais ; we shall all rush to buy them, disputing their possession with Morychus, Teleas, Glaucetes and every other glutton. Melanthius 1010 will arrive on the market last of all; they'll say, “no more eels, all sold!” and then he'll start groaning and exclaiming as in his monologue of Medea, “I am dying, I am dying! Alas! I have let those hidden in the beet escape me!” 1015 And won't we laugh?

English (Sanjaya, generated; selected passages) (OCR draft) Experimental (Source: pnadelofficial/aristophanes-sanjaya, commit c319590c139e5603e71f0699caa0663d823af8ad. Machine-generated source annotations retained; see Sanjaya import audit for coverage and limitations.) — 974 focus

Trygaeus: O most reverend queen goddess

Trygaeus: Lady Peace,

975

Trygaeus: mistress of the choruses, mistress of weddings,

Trygaeus: Receive our sacrifice.

Chorus: then receive, you most valued one

Chorus: By Zeus, and do not do what the...

Chorus: women commit adultery.

980

Chorus: for even those have leaned over

Chorus: They are peering over from the courtyard,

Chorus: And if anyone pays attention to them.

Chorus: They depart,

Chorus: And then, if she goes away, they will lean out.

985

Chorus: Do nothing of these things to us.

Trygaeus: By Zeus, but declare yourself in full.

Trygaeus: nobly to the lovers.

Trygaeus: For us, who are already worn out by you

Trygaeus: "Three and ten years,"

990

Trygaeus: release the battles and the cock-fights,

Trygaeus: so that we may call you Lysimachus.

Trygaeus: Stop our suspicions.

Trygaeus: the 'dainty ones',

Trygaeus: with whom are we bickering at each other?

995

Trygaeus: Mix us up, the Greeks.

Trygaeus: again from the beginning

Trygaeus: with friendship, stew and forgiveness.

Trygaeus: give a gentler horn to his mind;

Trygaeus: And the market [of] goods for us

Trygaeus: to be filled with great cloves of garlic,

1000

Trygaeus: cucumbers, apples, roses.

Trygaeus: for the slaves, little cloaks.

Trygaeus: even to see them coming from the Boeotians.

Trygaeus: fat geese, fat pigs, thrushes.

Trygaeus: and let the winnowers bring the baskets,

1005

Trygaeus: and about these, us all together

Trygaeus: 'Let the shoppers be stirred up.'

Trygaeus: to Morchos, Teleas, Glauketes, and others

Trygaeus: with many baskets; and then Melanthius

Trygaeus: to come later into the agora,

1010

Trygaeus: But for her to be sold, and for him to be beaten,

Trygaeus: then to sing solo from Medea,

Trygaeus: I am utterly ruined, utterly ruined, having been deprived of my oxen.

Trygaeus: those giving birth in the beet-leaves;

Trygaeus: but let men rejoice.

1015

Commentary

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τένθαις πολλοῖς· κᾆτα Μελάνθιον

The text presents a significant crux regarding the reading of the first word. While the transmitted text reads τένθαις (tenthais, 'with many tenons/pegs'), some scholars, following the logic of the context (a discussion of a trap or mechanism), have conjectured τένθαις (with the accent on the first syllable) or even questioned the lexical identity entirely, as the plural dative of τέθνη (a rare form or variant of τέθνη/τένθη meaning a peg or pin) is exceptionally rare in Attic comedy. The phrase likely refers to the mechanism of the 'Trap' (ἡ παγίς) in the play's allegory, where the number of pegs is a specific detail of the trap's construction that Melanthius (the goatherd) is meant to operate or inspect. The ambiguity of the noun's form and the specific mechanical reference warrants scrutiny against the manuscript tradition.

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τὰς δὲ πεπρᾶσθαι, τὸν δʼ ὀτοτύζειν,

The construction τὰς δὲ πεπρᾶσθαι (feminine plural accusative participle) followed by τὸν δʼ ὀτοτύζειν (masculine singular accusative participle) presents a striking case of the 'sympathetic' or 'attracted' accusative in indirect discourse or a dependent clause where the subjects differ in gender and number from the implied governing verb (likely ἔφη or ἔλεγον, 'he/she said'). Here, Aristophanes juxtaposes the fate of the women (ἔθνεσι τῶν Ἑλλήνων πεπρᾶσθαι, 'to be sold') with that of the man (ὀτοτύζειν, 'to be beaten'), compressing two distinct accusative subjects into a single syntactic frame. While the accusative + infinitive is standard, the attraction of the participle to the gender/number of the object it describes (the women being sold, the man being beaten) without a clear governing verb in the immediate context is a marked rhetorical device, emphasizing the parallel suffering of the two groups. This is not a routine accusative-infinitive but a deliberate syntactic compression to heighten the comic contrast.

Aristophanes Peace 974

ed. F. W. Hall, ed. William M. Geldart

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Τρυγαῖος

ὦ σεμνοτάτη βασίλεια θεὰ

πότνιʼ Εἰρήνη,
975

δέσποινα χορῶν, δέσποινα γάμων,

δέξαι θυσίαν τὴν ἡμετέραν.

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Trygaeus

Oh! Peace, mighty queen, venerated goddess, 975 thou, who presidest over choruses and at nuptials, deign to accept the sacrifices we offer thee.

Servant

Receive it, greatly honored mistress, and behave not like the 980 courtesans, who half open the door to entice the gallants, draw back when they are stared at, 985 to return once more if a man passes on. But do not thou act like this to us.

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Τρυγαῖος ὦ σεμνοτάτη βασίλεια θεὰ πότνιʼ Εἰρήνη, 975 δέσποινα χορῶν, δέσποινα γάμων, δέξαι θυσίαν τὴν ἡμετέραν.

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Trygaeus Oh! Peace, mighty queen, venerated goddess, 975 thou, who presidest over choruses and at nuptials, deign to accept the sacrifices we offer thee.

Servant Receive it, greatly honored mistress, and behave not like the 980 courtesans, who half open the door to entice the gallants, draw back when they are stared at, 985 to return once more if a man passes on. But do not thou act like this to us.

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Τρυγαῖος

ὦ σεμνοτάτη βασίλεια θεὰ

πότνιʼ Εἰρήνη,
975

δέσποινα χορῶν, δέσποινα γάμων,

δέξαι θυσίαν τὴν ἡμετέραν.

Trygaeus

Oh! Peace, mighty queen, venerated goddess, 975 thou, who presidest over choruses and at nuptials, deign to accept the sacrifices we offer thee.

Servant

Receive it, greatly honored mistress, and behave not like the 980 courtesans, who half open the door to entice the gallants, draw back when they are stared at, 985 to return once more if a man passes on. But do not thou act like this to us.